{"id":70958,"date":"2025-04-11T14:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/11\/taiwan-charges-chinese-captain-with-damaging-undersea-cables"},"modified":"2025-04-11T14:52:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T05:52:21","slug":"taiwan-charges-chinese-captain-with-damaging-undersea-cables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=70958","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan charges Chinese captain with damaging undersea cables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan launches first such prosecution, alleging the captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58 dropped anchor near an undersea cable that then damaged it<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/taiwan\">Taiwan <\/a>charged, for the first time, a Chinese ship captain with intentionally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/feb\/25\/taiwan-detains-chinese-crewed-cargo-ship-after-undersea-cable-damaged\">damaging undersea cables<\/a> off the island in February, after a rise in sea cable malfunctions alarmed Taiwan officials amid tensions with China.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the man was captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58, registered in Togo, which Taiwanese authorities detained after suspecting the ship had dropped anchor near an undersea cable off southwestern Taiwan, allegedly damaging it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/11\/taiwan-charges-chinese-captain-with-damaging-undersea-cables\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan launches first such prosecution, alleging the captain of the Chinese-crewed Hong Tai 58 dropped anchor near an undersea cable that then damaged itProsecutors in Taiwan charged, for the first time, a Chinese ship captain with intentionally damagi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70959,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70958\/revisions\/70959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}